Cork

Ahh, what to say about Cork.  Not much other than it's sketchy, and really dirty.  We keep hearing how Cork is one of the top cities to travel to in the world, and we're all confused as to why hahah.  We're definitely missing Galway!  Today we moved to a different hostel that has bigger rooms and no mold covering the bathrooms.  But I guess I should recap with what we've done so far this week.

Monday we went to the University of Cork College where we listened to three professors lecture (interesting, but boring).  But we were able to go to Eve's Chocolates which was pretty fun.  It's basically like a James J. Chocolate Factory, only a lot more colorful haha.  And her chocolates were pretty good.  Didn't do much after we left the university, basically just stayed in and called it a night.

Tuesday was a lot more fun, minus going to the Cork Chamber of Commerce in the morning.  In the afternoon however we went to Blarney Castle where a bunch of us kissed the Blarney stone.  It was really fun even though it lasted two seconds.  Best kiss of my life though!  NOT hahah.  But now I can say I did it!  The grounds were really pretty though so after we kissed the blarney stone we wandered around.  There was a poison garden that had two plants that are mentioned in the Harry Potter books, I forget which ones but you'll eventually see them on Facebook :p Then we went to these "wishing stairs" and I guess you're supposed to walk up and then back down them with your eyes closed only thinking about your wish.  I only went up with my eyes closed, and I didn't even think about my wish because I was too busy concentrating on walking up stone stairs with my eyes closed haha.  Then we just walked around some more before we decided to leave.  That night we went out to a pub but I wasn't really feeling the atmosphere so I went back early with a few people.

Today we went to Cobh which is the last place where the Titanic stopped before making it's way to America.  We walked around a little museum and then went up to this super tall and gorgeous catholic church.  After walking around that for a little bit we ate at this really small place called Gills, which was a super cheap fish and chips place (none of us got fish) but what we did get was still really good. After Cobh we went to Midleton where the Jameson Distillery is.  That place was crazy expensive, but it was still cool to see.  Everyone gets a shot of Jameson at the end of the tour, and I highly recommend mixing it with cranberry juice, it was super good!

Tomorrow I'm finally meeting with a company called Faaltech for my big project.  After that we're all going to Kingsale which is on the coast and it's supposed to be super nice.  I'm thinking of finally shaving not just below the knee but my thighs now too so I can wear shorts!  Hahaha, we'll see what Ireland weather we get.  But that's about it for now! 

Happy mom? ;)